Ramones Quotes
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Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.
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They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.
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The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.
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I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
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It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
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No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
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Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
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Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.
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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
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Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.
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Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.
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All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
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When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.
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It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.
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When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
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I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.
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The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'